Part of the Practice
What is social practice, and how does it affect the ways we navigate our lives and make change in the world? Join artists, scholars, and collaborators from Social Practice CUNY on Part of the Practice, hosted by Catherine LaSota, as we discuss our individual art practices, our communities, and the role of socially-engaged art in our work for social justice.
Part of the Practice
15: Relationality and Intersubjectivity with Jess Bal
Researcher, educator, and photographer Jess Bal is in conversation with host Catherine LaSota on this episode of Part of the Practice. Jess, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and working on a community memory project about labor organizing in U.S. newsrooms, discusses her work in photojournalism, her thoughts on documentary ethics, and her ongoing relationship to storytelling. We also ask the question, "What is truth?"
FULL TRANSCRIPT of Episode 15 available here.
About our guest:
Jessica (Jess) Bal (she/her) is a researcher, educator, and photographer pursuing a PhD in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research focuses on documentary ethics, histories of photographic illusion, and emerging imaging technologies. As a Social Practice CUNY Actionist Fellow, Jess is working on a community memory project about labor organizing in U.S. newsrooms. Jess has taught media literacy and visual storytelling to teens and graduate students in New York City, coordinated education programming for the Photoville festival, and managed the digital archive of photographer Susan Meiselas. Her documentary work has been supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation, Magnum Foundation, The Polis Project, UnionDocs, Eddie Adams Workshop, and Fledgling Fund, and published in The New York Times, BuzzFeed News, VICE, The Miami Herald, Narratively, and others.
More about Jess Bal:
Website: jessicabal.com
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Social Practice CUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation.